Synaptic should warn about auto-removable packages

[Philip A. Marshall]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I know there are some older somewhat related bugs, but I decided to submit this separately as a feature request.

When uninstalling a package that will orphan dependencies, Synaptic doesn't warn the user that installed packages will be left behind. I agree that automatically removing them would be risky, but I think a message box would be good. Something like: "Removing packagename has left behind packages that may no longer be needed. Would you like to see a list of packages that can be safely removed? [yes/no]" Clicking "yes" would take the user to the Status->Installed (auto removable) list of packages. Right now, it is not immediately clear that such a list exists or how to access it.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Please don't assign bugs unless the bug is relevant to a team that has a policy to do so or the person that you are assigning it works for you.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 17297, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.